From iad@MATH.BAS.BG Tue Oct 17 07:03:28 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: iad@math.bas.bg X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_1_0); 17 Oct 2000 14:03:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 4885 invoked from network); 17 Oct 2000 14:03:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 17 Oct 2000 14:03:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO banmatpc.math.bas.bg) (195.96.243.2) by mta3 with SMTP; 17 Oct 2000 14:03:25 -0000 Received: from iad.math.bas.bg (iad.math.bas.bg [195.96.243.88]) by banmatpc.math.bas.bg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA22226 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 17:02:56 +0300 Message-ID: <39EC5C67.1680@math.bas.bg> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 17:04:23 +0300 Reply-To: iad@math.bas.bg Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] xebni References: <200010160750.DAA15579@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ivan A Derzhanski X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4577 Invent Yourself writes: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Evgueni Sklyanin wrote: > >I am puzzled to see "hate" and "despise" in one line. > >To me, these are quite distinct emotions. Yes, to me too. I can't say I'm puzzled to see them on the same line, however, because there is some remote similarity (both are negative attitudes), and gismu are meant to be semantically coarse. > In American usage, we use the two almost interchangeably. > It would not make sense to hear anyone say "I don't hate > him, I despise him.". How about `I don't love him, (but) I respect him.'? Is {xebni} the polar opposite of `love', of `respect', of their disjunction, or of their conjunction? --Ivan